# Could the Millenium Falcon dock with the ISS?

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**Created:** [August 16, 2016, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-millenium-falcon-dock-with-the-iss/762984 "2016-08-16T11:07:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-millenium-falcon-dock-with-the-iss/762984/21 "2016-08-17T16:06:07Z")

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Besides the invisible forcefield, some sort of emergency docking ring (or hostile boarding ring) where a polymer (or some other substance that can be used to seal the gap) would be used to basically form a seal on anything could be a answer, as well as scanning and 3d printing the correct docking ring.

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**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-millenium-falcon-dock-with-the-iss/762984/22 "2016-08-17T16:19:58Z")

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> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> They were in its stomach, which is even worse. Plus, that asteroid was not big enough to have that much gravity, either.

Artifacial gravity projector?

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-millenium-falcon-dock-with-the-iss/762984/23 "2016-08-17T17:09:12Z")

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**Ahem–reference cites**

[WOOKIEPEDIA](http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Millennium_Falcon/Legends).

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> Escape craft  
> Up to 5 CEC Class-1 escape pods[2]

[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Class-1\_escape\_pod](http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Class-1_escape_pod)

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> The Class-1 escape pod was a model of escape pod with capacity for a single passenger that was manufactured by the Corellian Engineering Corporation. At the time that the smuggler Han Solo acquired the YT-1300 light freighter Millennium Falcon, the starship carried five Class-1 escape pods.

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**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-millenium-falcon-dock-with-the-iss/762984/24 "2016-08-17T17:36:44Z")

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Isn’t the fundamental problem with your story that Han, Chewy and the Millennium Falcon all existed a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, so wouldn’t be able to dock with the ISS, regardless of what mechanisms it may or may not have had?

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**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-millenium-falcon-dock-with-the-iss/762984/25 "2016-08-17T18:03:02Z")

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> [@scr4](#):
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> [This page](http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Millennium_Falcon/Legends) lists the Millennium Falcon’s cargo capacity as 100 tons. The total mass of ISS is about 420 tons.

I was going to guess the Falcon would outmass the ISS and the ISS would be docking to the Falcon.

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